An Edwardian semidetached house with an 80 ft long back garden on Iona Road, in Glasnevin, Dublin 9, carries a guide price of £360,000 in advance of its auction by Mason Estates on June 1st. Number 51, a Strain-built house, has around 1,675 sq. ft of living space featuring marble fireplaces, original decorative tiling in the hallway, cornices and colourful leaded-glass window insets.

The present owner moved in as a girl in l947 and has put care into keeping these, and other original features, as they were meant to be. The result is a house in very good condition but in need of modernisation.

The two main reception rooms have a strong sense of period; linked by interconnecting doors both have fine marble fireplaces with cast-iron insets. The living room, which is to the front, has a deep bay window which, courtesy of the coloured leaded-glass across the top, throws a dappled light. In the dining room the fireplace is a more sombre deep pink with black. Here, as in the living room, the picture rail and cornice-work are intact. The high ceilinged entrance hallway, with its ornately tiled floor, runs the length of the house and gets a lot of light from the glass panels surrounding the front door.

At the end of the hallway there is a small study with a cast-iron fireplace and, beyond it, at the end of a narrow passageway, the kitchen. Directly off it is a shower-room.

A 1950s tiled fireplace has replaced the kitchen range but the old quarry floor tiles are as they were and the original sink is in use by a window. Upstairs, there are two bedrooms to the front, off the main landing. These were originally a single room but the one which is now the main bedroom has all the benefits of the light and space offered by the second bay window. It has a marble fireplace too, this one in mottled black, red and white with red hearth tiles.

A third bedroom has a cast-iron fireplace with tiled inset and a window overlooking the back garden.

On the first-floor return there is a hot-press and a bathroom with wood-panelled walls, claw-legged bath and wash-hand basin. A separate lavatory has a chain flush.

The remaining two small bedrooms follow - one with a cast-iron fireplace and window to the side of the house, the other with a window over the garden.

The back garden has ivy-clad walls, a copper-leaf, a Japanese flowering cherry, a Californian lilac and three outhouses.